Micrograph 300 and full record
- Micrograph no
- 300
- Brief description
- Fe, C 0.75 (wt%) steel, quenched, martensitic and manganese sulphides
- Keywords
- alloy , carbon, iron, martensite , metal, quenching , steel
- Categories
- Metal or alloy
- System
- Fe-C-X
- Composition
- Fe, C 0.75 (wt%)
- Standard codes
- Reaction
- Processing
- Quenched
- Applications
- Sample preparation
- Nital
- Technique
- Reflected light microscopy
- Length bar
- 100 μm
- Further information
- This steel has been quenched to produce martensite. Manganese has been added to remove sulphur from the alloy, and during solidification some of the MnS has been trapped and incorporated into the resultant product.
- Contributor
- Dr R F Cochrane
- Organisation
- Department of Materials, University of Leeds
- Date
- 04/09/02
- Licence for re-use
- Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
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